Quote:>I am preparing to purchase a video board and want to go with the ATI
>Ultra with 1 Meg on board. The 8514/a notes that I have say that the
>driver for 8514 works with the ATI Ultra *VESA* board. Is there a
>driver for the ATI Ultra ISA or EISA (w/1 Meg)?
I am using an ATI Graphics Ultra on a DELL 486D66 ISA machine, with
no problems. I am using the x8514 X server, and it works like a dream -
the best thing about this server it that there is no fiddling around
with settings in the Xconfig file. As far as I can remember, the only
thing that needs to be set is the display resolution (I didn't even
have to do that, as the default setting was fine for me). The x8514
server is very fast, and seems to be very stable - I have been using
it for a few months with no problems.
I'm not sure what the latest version is, but have a browse around you
local linux ftp site and look for x8514.
Quote:>(The thing I dread most is using wrong settings, having the
>system freeze, being forced to power down to reboot (WITHOUT
>synching), not being able to repair the system with fsck, and having
>to reinstall the whole thing ONLY to go through the same thing over
>and over and over again!!! That is what I had to do with stupid SCO!)
The process `update' runs every 30 seconds and syncs the disk - so if
something * happens (you loose your kbd or display), just wait
at least 30 seconds and the system will sync for you.
I have been using Linux for a few months now, and I have not managed
to corrupt a disk yet. I share the machine with a DOS user, so Linux
is booted, and shut down several times a day. The only problem I had
was recently when somebody tried to install DRDOS 6.0 on another
disk - for some reason the DRDOS 6.0 install program decided that
my linux root and swap partitions were DOS partitions, and tried to
write to them!!! Made a bit of a mess of a few inodes.
Stephen...
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